The phrase "a sword in a" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing a situation involving a sword, often implying a location or a metaphorical meaning.
Example: "He drew a sword in a moment of desperation, ready to defend his honor."
Alternatives: "a sword within a" or "a sword inside a".
On the wall is a poster of a pen, held up like a sword in a shaft of light.
Several Tuaregs were there, dressed in indigo robes and turbans, one wearing a sword in a leather scabbard and gold-rimmed sunglasses that concealed his eyes.
He attended receptions dressed in a black velvet suit with gold buckles, with yellow gloves, powdered hair, a cocked hat with an ostrich plume in one hand, and a sword in a white leather scabbard.
Juan Gonzalez, who killed two people and wounded nine with a sword in a July 1986 attack on the Staten Island Ferry, has been granted unsupervised leave from his residence at the Bronx Psychiatric Center.
The skull was wrapped in a monk's cowl rather than the crown shown on the effigy, and a sword in a leather scabbard lay by the side of the remains.
You yearn for something with a bit more excitement: a picture of the candidate stripped to the waist in a Turkish oil-wrestling competition, or wielding a sword in a fight to the death with a crocodile.
One, Ahmed Rahim Tutul (pictured on page 15), survived only because he fell between a table and chair as a militant slashed at his head with a sword in an attack that left terrible scars across his face.
In the moment of running away, he doesn't think much at all, forming only a single mental impression: a lieutenant who waves a sword in an attempt to stop him must be "a peculiar creature to feel interested in such matters upon this occasion".
And on top of this pastoral column sits a peasant with a sword in his back.
He should have been born a few centuries ago with a sword in his hand".
The fatal encounter was triggered by somebody calling in a report of a suspicious person walking with a sword in Saratoga Springs, a middle-class city south of Salt Lake City.
